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Paper Abstract
The properties of four candidate mirror materials--beryllium, silicon carbide,
a silicon carbide/aluminum iretal-matrix carposite and aluminum--are corrpared.
Because of its high specific stiffness and dirrensional stability under changing
mschanical and thermal loads , beryllium is the best choice . Berjllium mirrors have
been made irore cost-conpetitive by new processing technologies in which mirror
blanks are isostatically pressed to near-net shape directly fran beiyllium pc1ers.
Isostatic pressing also improves material properties and mskes it possible to
develop mirror rraterials with superior properties.
Paper Details
Date Published: 1 November 1990
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 1335, Dimensional Stability, (1 November 1990); doi: 10.1117/12.22885
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 1335:
Dimensional Stability
Roger A. Paquin, Editor(s)
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 1335, Dimensional Stability, (1 November 1990); doi: 10.1117/12.22885
Show Author Affiliations
Thomas B. Parsonage, Brush Wellman, Inc. (United States)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 1335:
Dimensional Stability
Roger A. Paquin, Editor(s)
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